I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.